Life in the Canal Zone Delights and Dures in Panama City
An evocative travel sketch contrasts Panama City’s American engineered progress with daily life for Panamanian residents. It paints Goethals’ hotel park, schools, markets, and street vendors, noting lush indepth detail of orphaned urban scenes, labor gaps, and the lure of the isthmus while hinting at homesickness and the pace of colonial life.
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Papama City
The
Republic
Uncle Sam
Goethals
Adam
Schoo
Breese in Bight and the Wind Chatter
In a stormy scene Ab the Hobby argues with Bobby papa about wind and sight drafts. Papa asserts wind is in motion and cannot be fully seen, while Ab presses for a solution to a seemingly impossible task. The talk turns to a mast tied to Clove and Plain Dealer as a frame of reference.
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Bobby Papa
Pape
Ideal Bedroom Furniture and Color Schemes in French Style
An article details a luxurious bedroom layout featuring two French beds in gray enamel with natural wicker, a French dressing table with three mirrors, a low backed chair, a bureau-like desk, seating including a gray wicker chair and a chintz upholstered chair, plus built in cream bookcases. It advises spending on unusual pieces over common ones and notes a mahogany option with an oval cheval glass and Bulgarian chintz hangings for striking color accents.
Butterflies as Neck Ribbon Pendants Describe 1914 Style
Butterflies crafted from filigree metal gauze and silk hang from broad ribbon at the neck, adding a springlike festive air to pew costumes. They replace pendants, lockets, or watches, highlighting the deep V of the bodice and the black moire ribbons.
Olly Hair Tip for Oily Hair Care
For very oily hair, dip your brush in water and run it through your hair two or three times per week. This simple method helps prevent excessive oil and keeps hair looking fresher between washes.
How to Assemble a Lace Apron with Flounce and Beading
Instructions describe forming a flounce from narrow curved sections, sewing them together at the middle to create the top gathered edge, adding a beaded head, threading a ribbon if desired, and attaching lace to the apron edge for a finished garment.
Hats of past and present reflect freedom and fashion
The piece argues that hats symbolize independence and power in certain settings. It notes how hat removal signals politeness or submission, contrasts modern befeathered hats with historical liberty caps, and suggests today’s overelaborate styles imply fashion slavishness rather than freedom.
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Rome
Idea for flounted apron from plain sewing directions
A vintage craft note describes materials for a frilled apron including one and one-eighth yards of crow s bar tain cook at ten cents a yard lace costing twelve cents for three yards, nine cents for one yard, and beading at two cents. Total estimated cost is twenty four cents.
Effective Frilling and Buttonholing Techniques
A guide notes that handwork on net ruffling shows rough defects on the wrong side, but buttonholed work on the wrong side can look neat. Edges may use buttonhole stitching in any color, with silk or mercerized cotton for the finish.
Plaque Form Hate Message Appears on Ostrich Adorned Top
A fragment describes hate in plaque form appearing on a top surface with a side bandeau and ostrich tip details sometimes used underneath. The text offers no clear event or organization, but indicates a stylistic or decorative arrangement with potential stigma conveyed by the phrase hate.
Good Lace Ribbons Inspire Elegant Fashion Creations
A review of decorative lace ribbons and coordinated outfits highlights bordered materials, brown satin accents, and gauze lace pieces edged with satin. The piece notes new bodice shapes, satin edged laces, and a gold ribbon bag with green piping, illustrating period style and craft details.
Handy kit for repairs in a silver case
A damaged OCR item describes a small repair kit in a silver coated metal case holding three colored threads, a thimble and needles. The text mentions a wrapped thread and decorated interior but is garbled, leaving the overall image of a portable sewing kit.
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Opal Mercantile
O. General Merchandise
Bane and
Ie Deere
Dain Sr
McCormick
OPAL
Wyoming
Kemmerer
Jeose B
Budd, Pree
Tanner
Dick May
Seey-Treas
Big Piney Mercantile Co
Big Piney, Wyoming
Mall
Peter Schuttler
Deering
Bon
Bon Ton
Caylrost
Kemmerer, Wyoming
Claus Meale
Kemmerer Soda Bottling Factory
Earnebt W. Holmes, Prop
F. D. Fagnant & Sona
Coca-Cola
Selzer
Neauce
J. E. Irvine
the Kemmerer Steam Laundry
Lane Dey
the Kemmerer Hotel Cafe
Compostinn
Hotel Kemmerer
Tom Ming
Prop
Hotel
Ropers & Chapin
F. H. Chapin, Mgr
Canal
Panama
Brent
Jane
Broadway
Costa
Gibraltar
Atep
Lttle
Panama City
Wales
America
Morgan
Central Plaza
Challie
Eine
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